The Bookshelf (Column)
With Kgang Abel Motheane
Book: Interviews with effervescent writers
Edited by Christine Mautjana
The Free State has done it again. The literary fraternity has been mightily impressed this week as the Province has a strong presence in a new national, international publication.
The new work is titled Interviews with effervescent writers. The editor is Christine Mautjana, the Mpumalanga based female literary activist and essayist. The book features interviews with writers, black and white, South Africans, and non-South Africans.
Remarkably, quite a number of FS based writers are featured in this new work, including Nmm Duman, Pule Lechesa, Jah Rose, and Hector Kunene.
This is a book that contributes greatly to South African and international literature. The interviews clearly reveal a general powerful love for the written word, with illuminating contributions from the likes of Aryan Kaganof, and award winning Teboho Letshaba.
Literary experts are already comparing this new work to two earlier African classics - African writers talking, and Talking with African writers. Yet this new book is much more up to date, and has literary allusions from all over the world. This columnist congratulates the FS writers who feature in this new, world-class work!
* Reproduced by kind permission of Free State News; March 30 2012 edition
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